Originally Posted by
CPMaverick
Read the OP, the plane was full. There were no other seats available, GA had to move a NSRA pilot to the cockpit to make room for the OP.
Appears that the FA was talking about removal from the flight, which is way out of line. The FA had to know better, how can you poach a seat when there are no other seats open (besides the broken seat which it appears there was a big deal made about that the FA should have noticed).
It was full, until the mechanic fixed his original seat, which became both useable and vacant. The OP edited his original post and added a follow up later with this potentially useful information.
Not that it justifies the SW behavior, but original details from one party rarely contain all of the variables. In this case, the extra variable means the seat for which his status enabled him to sit in, was in fact, made available to him. Of course, he was not told this, so crew communication was lacking. Again still no excuse, but the variables of the situation now are different.